The vision of this Strategy is that any person with an advanced non-curative condition, lives well and dies well irrespective of their condition or care setting. This requires a philosophy of palliative and end of life care that is person-centred and which takes a holistic approach to planning, co-ordinating and delivering high quality reliable care, enabling patients to retain control, dignity and crucially, choice in how and where their care is delivered to the end of their life.